Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something.

I think President Barack Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points. But obviously not everybody thinks that.

Well, I've liked Star Wars since the late '70s. I liked it a lot.

Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of them are pretty nutty, but the idea that we should see it as profoundly feminist, or as a deeply Christian tale, or as a Freudian exercise... I think all of those have some truth.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something.

Somewhat more broadly, I will suggest that animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives, to prevent violations of current law.